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Comet Ahoy Off VenusHuntsville - Feb 16, 2004 
Comet C/2002 T7 is fast approaching Earth and brightening every day. It's not yet a naked-eye object, but at magnitude 7, the fuzzball is easy to see through backyard telescopes. The comet lies not far from brilliant Venus in the western sky after sunset. |
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Titan Is Ideal Lab For Oceanography, Meteorology
Tucson - Feb 16, 2004After a 7-year interplanetary voyage, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will reach Saturn this July and begin what promises to be one of the most exciting missions in planetary exploration history. After years of work, scientists have just completed plans for Cassini's observations of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Research On Tiniest Particles Could Have Far-Reaching Effects 
Seattle - Feb 16, 2004Neutrinos are about the tiniest things in existence, but developing a greater understanding of what they are and how they function is likely to have a huge impact in the next few years. The subatomic particles, created in the nuclear furnaces of the sun and other stars, have no electrical charge and only recently has it been found that they have any mass at all, yet billions pour through each human body every second with no discernable effect or interaction. |
Lockheed Martin-Built Titan 4 Launches Defense Support Program Payload
Cape Canaveral - Feb 14, 2004A Lockheed Martin-built Titan IV B rocket thundered off its Complex 40 seaside launch pad today at 1:50 p.m. Eastern Standard Time carrying a Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite into orbit for the U.S. Air Force. US Army To Deploy Lockheed Martin Aerostat Surveillance Systems In Iraq 
Akron - Feb 16, 2004The US Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.6 million contract to provide the first of two 56,000-cubic-foot tethered aerostat surveillance systems for deployment in Iraq. The aerostats, equipped with various sensors, will provide a persistent surveillance capability in the defense of ground forces and high-value assets in Baghdad. |
Keck And Hubble Team Up To Find Farthest Known Galaxy In The Universe
Kamuela - Feb 16, 2004A team of astronomers may have discovered the most distant galaxy in the universe over 13 billion light-years away. NASA Predicts More Tropical Rain In A Warmer World 
Greenbelt - Feb 11, 2004As the tropical oceans continue to heat up, following a 20-year trend, warm rains in the tropics are likely to become more frequent, according to NASA scientists. Big or Small, Business Needs IT Security 
Ohio - Feb 11, 2004With computer viruses and other Internet attacks on the rise, even small businesses should create dedicated security teams to minimize the financial and political fallout from these incidents, according to a new book. |
Interplanetary Networking Succeeds With Mars Earth Link Up
Pasadena - Feb 13, 2004A pioneering demonstration of communications between NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express orbiter succeeded. On February 6, while Mars Express was flying over the area Spirit was examining, the orbiter transferred commands from Earth to the rover and relayed data from the robotic explorer back to Earth. Evocative Debris, Orbital Opportunity 
Moffett Field - Feb 16, 2004"As you saw with Spirit," said Tim McElrath of the Opportunity's navigation team, "we have a number ways to locate a rover. The 44 by 5 miles across, that error ellipse was what we worked for six months to define before landing. We were fortunate to have two Deep Space Network tracking stations, so we could see two-way Doppler data all the way down during descent until the parachute opened. " |
Dinosaur Fossil Record Points To 500 Plus Undiscovered Species
by Tony FitzpatrickSt. Louis - Feb 11, 2004 A graduate student in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has combed the dinosaur fossil record from T. Rex to songbirds and has compiled the first quantitative analysis of the quality and congruence of that record. One Order of Snake Legs, Please 
University Park - Feb 11, 2004The mystery of where Earth's first snakes lived as they were evolving into limbless creatures from their lizard ancestors has intrigued scientists for centuries. Now, the first study ever to analyze genes from all the living families of lizards has revealed that snakes made their debut on the land, not in the ocean. |
Intelsat Receives FCC Approval In Connection With Loral Transaction
Hamilton - Feb 16, 2004Intelsat, Ltd., a global leader in satellite communications, today announced in connection with its proposed purchase of the North American satellite assets of Loral Space & Communications Corporation and its affiliates that the U.S Federal Communications Commission has approved the transfer of Loral's FCC licenses to Intelsat. Intelsat CEO Conny Kullman said, Network Centric Warfare Concepts Get High Level Battle Exercise 
Melbourne - Feb 13, 2004A team led by Northrop Grumman Corporation has refined the definition and functionality of its proposed architecture for a next generation U.S. Air Force battle management system with an exercise involving live and simulated military components. |
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